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n. [ L. abalienatio: cf. F. abaliénation. ] The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. alien, L. alienus, fr. alius another; properly, therefore, belonging to another. See Else. ] 1. Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion. [ 1913 Webster ]

An alien sound of melancholy. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aliens from the common wealth of Israel. Ephes. ii. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. aliéner, L. alienare. ] To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership. [ R. ] “It the son alien lands.” Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

The prince was totally aliened from all thoughts of . . . the marriage. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Capability of being alienated. “The alienability of the domain.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. aliénable. ] Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. aliénage. ] 1. The state or legal condition of being an alien. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The disabilities of alienage are removable by naturalization or by special license from the State of residence, and in some of the United States by declaration of intention of naturalization. Kent. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Estates forfeitable on account of alienage. Story. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being alienated or transferred to another. Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. alienatus, p. p. of alienare, fr. alienus. See Alien, and cf. Aliene. ] Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from. [ 1913 Webster ]

O alienate from God. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Alienated p. pr. & vb. n. Alienating. ] 1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from. [ 1913 Webster ]

The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stranger; an alien. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 socially disoriented. we live in an age of rootless alienated people
Syn. -- anomic, disoriented [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having become indifferent or hostile to one's peers or social group.
Syn. -- estranged [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ F. aliénation, L. alienatio, fr. alienare, fr. alienare. See Alienate. ] 1. The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections. [ 1913 Webster ]

The alienation of his heart from the king. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Insanity; lunacy; madness; derangement; aberration; mania; delirium; frenzy; dementia; monomania. See Insanity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who alienates. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; as, to aliene an estate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor. [ 1913 Webster ]

It the alienee enters and keeps possession. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage. [ 1913 Webster ]

The law was very gentle in the construction of the disability of alienism. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The study or treatment of diseases of the mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. aliéniste. ] One who treats diseases of the mind. Ed. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. aliéneur. ] One who alienates or transfers property to another. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coat of arms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being inalienable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + alienable: cf. F. inaliénable. ] Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being inalienable; inalienability. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner that forbids alienation; as, rights inalienably vested. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Failure to alienate; also, the state of not being alienated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Salient. ] 1. The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being salient; hence, vigor. “A fatal lack of poetic saliency.” J. Morley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. saliens, -entis, p. pr. of salire to leap; cf. F. saillant. See Sally, n. & v. i.. ] 1. Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. “Frogs and salient animals.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Shooting out or up; springing; projecting. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had in himself a salient, living spring of generous and manly action. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Grenville ] had neither salient traits, nor general comprehensiveness of mind. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Math. & Fort.) Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reentering. See Illust. of Bastion. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Her.) Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient. [ 1913 Webster ]

Salient angle. See Salient, a., 4. --
Salient polygon (Geom.), a polygon all of whose angles are salient. --
Salient polyhedron (Geom.), a polyhedron all of whose solid angles are salient. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Fort.) A salient angle or part; a projection. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a salient manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of leaping on anything. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. super- + L. saliens p. pr. of salire to leap. ] Leaping upon. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]